Overview

• Matignon is not excluding a rectifying letter, with sources telling Le Parisien that all options are being examined to insert the suspension before the Assembly’s PLFSS examination on October 23.
• Marine Le Pen and Jean‑Luc Mélenchon, citing constitutionalist Benjamin Morel, urge this route to ensure the suspension survives if the Social Security budget ends up implemented by ordinances.
• Government spokesperson Maud Bregeon reiterates that commitments will be kept, rejects preemptive recourse to ordinances, and says the measure will be put to a parliamentary vote.
• Parliament opens 2026 budget scrutiny on October 20 without the 49.3 tool, and the PLFSS faces a 50‑day deadline after which unprecedented ordinances could default to the original text without a late suspension amendment.
• Senate president Gérard Larcher opposes undoing the retirement changes and refuses rushed timetable adjustments, signaling stiff resistance during bicameral passage.